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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by ajross on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:29PM (#46804503)
> We have numerous studies on why hallucinations are central to the architecture,

And we have tens of thousands of years of shared experience of "People Were Wrong and Fucked Shit Up". What's your point?

Again, my point isn't that LLMs are infallible; it's that they only need to be better than their competition, and their competition sucks.

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:38PM (#46804559)
It's a fine line. Humans don't always fuck shit up.

But human systems that don't fuck shit up are short-lived, rare, and fragile, and they've only become a potential - not a reality - in the last century or so.

The rest of history is mostly just endless horrors, with occasional tentative moments of useful insight.

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